Oklahoma Sooners Fans, Do Yourselves a Favor and Attend a Road Game

Anyone want to know what is more fun than going and watching your team play on Saturday afternoons? 

How about going to watch your team play in someone else’s house! 

While there is a lot to be said for attending home games, there is just as much you can say about attending a road game.  Home games pretty much offer the same thing every week.  You might see some subtle changes, but mostly the show is the same.  

However, attending road games offers many new experiences and opportunities.  Different atmospheres and traditions, along with the actual trip itself, are only a couple of the benefits of making a road trip.

Let’s start with the trip itself.  Who doesn’t like to get out and go to new places and see new things?  Anytime an opportunity offers itself for us to go somewhere new and see something different, it’s in our nature to want to go. 

Sooner fans have been fortunate enough to be able to travel to some pretty special places over the years.  Who can forget the ’08 trip to Seattle, Washington?  Oklahoma brought a National Title-contending team to Seattle to play a winless University of Washington, yet the Sooners still brought 10000 Crimson and Cream faithful.  Pike Place Market was a sea of red the night before that game. Not to mention the fact that Husky Stadium is hands-down the prettiest college football venue in America.

Oklahoma has many great traditions, and the atmosphere in Norman is unique.  However, every other college football venue out there is just as unique.  Each school has its own traditions, and they're all great.  Even Ames, Iowa has it going on.  It may not put much of a product on the field most years, but its stadium DJ knows how to rock that house!   If the atmosphere and traditions of a school like Iowa State can be pretty cool, then one only can imagine what a lot of the others may be like.

Oklahoma fans are already known to travel well.  This obviously helps when it comes to bowl selection and television opportunities.  The more Oklahoma fans that show up in College Station or Columbia, the better….especially this year.  

During that game in Seattle in ’08, Husky fans were amazed at how many Sooner fans made that trip.  Only Nebraska had brought as many fans to their stadium, outside of the normal Pac-10 schools the team plays obviously.   One of the reasons behind this article is to promote even more road game attendance in the hopes that Oklahoma’s already stellar reputation for traveling well will only be enhanced.

There have been several articles in the Cincinnati papers as of late in regards to Oklahoma’s upcoming visit in September.  It appears those fans are pretty geeked about the opportunity to have a program like Oklahoma come to their house. 

But the game really isn’t going to be played in their house, as it only holds 35K.  This one will be at the Bengals' stadium to accommodate the projected fan attendance.  Can you imagine what must have been going through the minds of the kids in ’08 when they came to Norman and played in front of 85K? 

Winning in someone else’s house just feels better than a win in Norman does.  Admittedly, so does a loss.  The fact that there aren’t many losses in Norman only makes those few losses harder to take.

One final reason to consider putting a road game on your itinerary every fall is that it’s a great tradition to start with your close friends.   2006 was the first year my kids were grown, and I finally had the opportunity to attend a road game. I haven’t missed a year since.  That year it was just my normal game day friend and me.  This year we are taking a party of 12 to College Station.  Our little tradition is growing every year, and it’s a blast. 

Try it amongst yourselves, and I assure you a great time! 

Boomer Sooner Baby!!